Huge portions of the Web vulnerable to hashing denial-of-service attack
Researchers have shown how a flaw that is common to most popular Web programming languages can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks by exploiting hash tables. Announced publicly on Wednesday at the Chaos Communication Cong...
Apple More Popular Than Wal-Mart On The Web [Report]
comScore is reporting that Apple was ranked as the 13th most-trafficked web source during the month of November, attracting more hits than companies like Wal-Mart, eBay, VEVO, and ESPN. Apple saw 79 million unique US visits while Wal-Mart saw almost 59...Raven Browser Offers New Ideas, But Don’t Make It Your Default Just Yet [Review]
Raven is a new browser for OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion), currently in beta. What sets it apart from the rest is a sleeker appearance, and a Twitter-esque side panel called the Smart Bar. What does this Bar do? It acts as a...Google’s New iOS App Gets It Right [Review]
The revamped Google Search app for iOS, which we reported on yesterday, is a huge improvement on what went before. It’s slick, speedy, and simple. Everything you want in a web search app. Enter your query and results show up as you type, thanks...Evernote Introduces “Clearly” Chrome Extension for Easier Web Reading and Clipping
Earlier today Evernote, note-taking/clipping/memory service that comes with a variety of web, desktop and mobile apps, has announced a new standalone product after Peek: Clearly. Available as a Chrome extension for now, but coming soon to other browsers, Clearly allows users to enjoy a distraction-free reading environment on the web so that articles, like this...
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
Adobe and the Open Spoon Foundation are preparing to open up development of the Flex SDK. They plan to donate the technology to “an established open source foundation” so that the Flex community and other stakeholders...
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
Adobe and the Open Spoon Foundation are preparing to open up development of the Flex SDK. They plan to donate the technology to “an established open source foundation” so that the Flex community and other stakeholders...
Try A Different Search Engine: Get Duck Duck Go On Your iPhone [Review]
For the last few weeks I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my search engine, not just on my Mac but also on my iPhone. The iPhone app, in particular, was a delightful eye-opener. Previously, I’d been finding the official Google Search app rather disappointing. It...Sandvox Web Editor: A Good iWeb Alternative [Review]
When Apple announced iCloud, it also announced the end of MobileMe web hosting. If you’re among the small community of iWeb/MobileMe users who’ve been wondering what to do when MobileMe finally gets switched off next June, I suggest you take a look at Sandvox...Sandvox hits Mac App Store, on sale for limited time
We reviewed Sandvox earlier this year, the handy WYSIWYG web editor from Karelia Software. Those looking for very Mac-friendly web design software that requires no coding (or even an iWeb replacement) ought to consider Sandvox. The time is right, ...
Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva's celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, the enterprise had hired him to upgrade the control systems for several of the lab's particle accelerators. But almost ...
